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Misys
is the largest independent international banking applications
software vendor and a market leader in both customer base
and global reach. We serve over 1400 financial institutions,
in over 120 countries, including 90% of the world’s
top 50 banks. (Source: The Banker, July 2004). With software
and solutions for retail banking, wholesale banking, treasury
and capital markets and risk management, Misys Banking Division
employs 2,600 people in 28 countries.
Misys plc, the global software products and solutions company,
serves customers in the international banking and securities,
international healthcare, and UK general insurance industries.
Through a wholly owned subsidiary, Sesame, it also provides
business process outsourcing services to independent financial
advisors (IFAs) in the UK. Misys partners with its customers
to deliver outstanding IT solutions to essential industries,
and employs more than 6,100 people internationally.
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Founded in 1975, Microsoft
(Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader
in software, services and solutions that help people and
businesses realize their full potential.The company develops,
manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software
products for various computing devices. Its software products
include scalable operating systems for servers, personal
computers (PCs) and intelligent devices; server applications
for client/server environments; information worker productivity
applications; business solutions applications; software
development tools, and mobile and embedded devices. Microsoft
provides consulting services and product support services
and trains and certifies system integrators and developers.
The Company sells the Xbox video game console, along with
games and peripherals. Its online businesses include the
MSN subscription and the MSN network of Internet products
and services. The Company's seven product segments are:
Client, Server and Tools, Information Worker, Microsoft
Business Solutions, MSN, Mobile and Embedded Devices and
Home and Entertainment.
www.microsoft.com
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Sun was founded with
one driving vision -- The Network Is The Computer[tm]. From
day one, Sun has established a history of innovation and
leadership from the protocols that propel the Internet to
the widely adopted Java(TM) technology -- used in everything
from smart cards to data centers. Sun is helping companies
leverage the power of Network Computing to streamline processes,
raise productivity, and reduce both costs and complexity.
From high-performance workstations, servers that give new
meaning to high availability, high-speed networking, robust
system software, intelligent network storage systems to
platform-independent Java, and Sun's vision, architecture,
products and services for optimizing network computing.
We are a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware,
software and services that make the net work. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries, and at www.sun.com.sg. |
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CheckFree Corporation (NASDAQ:
CKFR) provides financial electronic commerce services
and products to organisations around the world. CheckFree
is also the world’s leading supplier of electronic
invoicing & payment (EIP) solutions and national e-bill
consolidation technology. The CheckFree i-Series electronic
bill presentment and payment software enables financial
services providers and billers worldwide to give their corporate
and retail customers the speed and convenience of online
bill viewing and e-payment services. CheckFree i-Series
e-bill viewing technology enables local payment networks
to add value to their services, provides seamless integration
to online banking channels and supports both corporate and
retail invoice-to-pay processes from end to end. Leveraging
its role as one of the U.S.’ largest national bill
payment networks (handling 266 million payments and 43 million
e-bills in its latest quarter), CheckFree’s e-billing
and consolidation expertise scales from individual billers
and statement producers to central banks and national payment
processors. The company also provides professional assistance
with related programmes such as adoption marketing.
www.checkfreecorp.com |
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Moody's Investors Service
is among the world's most respected, widely utilized sources
for credit ratings, research and risk analysis. The firm
publishes market-leading credit opinions, deal research
and commentary that reach more than 2,600 institutions and
16,500 users around the globe.
Moody's integrity and deep market expertise have earned
it the trust of capital market participants worldwide. Our
ratings and analysis track more than $35 trillion of debt
covering nearly 170,000 corporate, government and structured
finance securities, over 100,000 public finance obligations,
10,000 corporate relationships, and 100 sovereign nations.
Moody's maintains offices in most of the world's major financial
centers and employs more than 2,000 people worldwide, including
more than 1,000 analysts.
Moody's Investors Service is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation
(NYSE: MCO). The corporation had reported revenue of $1.4
billion in 2004. Additional information about the company
is available at www.moodys.com.
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KRIeX is an initiative
led by an industry Steering Group. It hosts KRI Library
and Services and is designed for financial services companies
anywhere in the world that are interested in improving their
operational risk management.
A KRI benchmarking service has started earlier this year.
KRIeX grew out of a two year Banking KRI Study initiated
and now managed by the Risk Management Association ("RMA")
in conjunction with RiskBusiness International, a global
operational risk management company. It has since expanded
its coverage beyond banking into other industry sectors.
www.KRIeX.org |
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i-flex® solutions (Reuters: IFLX.BO
and IFLX.NS) is a world leader in providing IT solutions
to the financial services industry with more than 595 customers
in over 115 countries. It offers a range of products, custom
solutions and consulting services that cut costs, respond
rapidly to market needs, enhance customer service levels
and mitigate risk.
The i-flex portfolio includes FLEXCUBE®,
a complete core banking product suite for retail, consumer,
corporate, investment, internet, asset management, and investor
servicing. Since its launch in 1997, more than 240 financial
institutions in 95 countries have chosen FLEXCUBE. FLEXCUBE
has been ranked the world’s No. 1 selling core banking
solution for three consecutive years -2002, 2003 and 2004
- by the UK-based International Banking Systems (IBS).
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SunTec Business Solutions,
the first CMM Level 5 transaction billing company, is a
leading provider of transaction value management solutions
for the telecom and financial services industries. We leverage
our extensive domain experience, acquired since our inception
in 1990, to successfully deliver timely and cost-effective
solutions. Our concept of relationship-based pricing has
been endorsed by industry leaders and innovators across
the globe. We use state-of-the-art technology that makes
our products capable of integrating into any support system;
flexible enough to adapt to technological advancements;
scalable to any operating environment; and highly configurable.
SunTec’s TBMS-F suite of products provides a complete
pricing and billing solution for the financial services
supermarket, managing the four critical entities of business
- customer, product, partner and information. It consists
of sophisticated processing engines capable of enterprise-wide
relationship based pricing, billing and discounting with
the ability to compute profitability even at micro transaction
level. The TBMS-F suite provides comprehensive solutions
to clients for measuring and monitoring transaction value,
enabling tighter control on their profitability.
SunTec has a global presence with offices in US, UK, Germany,
Singapore and India, and has partnerships with technology
leaders like LogicaCMG, i-flex Solutions, Wipro, IBM, Cap
Gemini Ernst & Young and HP. Distinguished clientele
of SunTec includes the HSBC Group, ICICI Bank, ING Bank,
Lloyds TSB and SEI Investments.
www.suntecgroup.com |
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Quantitative Risk Management
Inc. (QRM) is one of the world’s leading
risk management firms. It specializes in expert enterprise
risk management systems used for asset/liability management,
market risk management, credit risk management (including
Basel II); funds transfer pricing/profitability analysis,
secondary marketing and mortgage servicing valuation and
accounting.
Since 1987, QRM has achieved an unparalleled track record
of industry leadership and innovation through a process
of continuous research and development. The firm anticipates,
understands and fully meets its clients’ business
needs, delivering an unsurpassed level of customer support
and employing a unique business model that mandates constant
improvement in all phases of the business.
www.qrm.com |
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Makeena Corporation
Flexible solutions for tomorrow - on today's infrastructure
Makeena is an innovative payment solutions and integration
company.
With a strong history in the payments industry, Makeena
has the expertise and the skill to recommend and implement
flexible and proven solutions, as well as define and develop
new approaches that leverage existing infrastructure and
legacy system investments.
We provide the industry’s leading technology by combining
our own solutions with those of carefully selected partners
that are leaders in their respective markets.
Complete solutions for any business that processes
payments
Makeena provides turnkey payment processing solutions for:
• Financial Institutions
• Payment Processors & Service Providers
• Merchants
End-to-end solutions for the entire payment processing
lifecycle
Directly or through our partners, Makeena provides complete
solutions for:
• Transaction Switching
• ATM and POS Network Management
• Merchant Payment Processing Services
• Card Processing & Acquiring Solutions
• Transaction Clearing & Settlement
• Multi-channel Payment Management
• Fraud Prevention
• Marketing Intelligence & CRM
www.makeena.com
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Fitch Ratings is a
leading global rating agency committed to providing the
world's credit markets with independent, timely and prospective
credit opinions. Built on a foundation of organic growth
and strategic acquisitions, Fitch Ratings has grown rapidly
during the past decade gaining market presence throughout
the world and across all fixed income markets.
Fitch Ratings is dual-headquartered in New York and London,
operating offices and joint ventures in more than 49 locations
and covering entities in more than 90 countries. Fitch Ratings
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., an international
business support services group headquartered in Paris,
France.
Fitch Ratings currently maintains coverage of over 5,000
financial institutions, which includes 3,200 banks and 1,900
insurance companies. Finance & leasing companies and
broker-dealers make up the remainder of the company's financial
institution coverage universe. Additionally, Fitch currently
rates over 2,000 corporate issuers, 96 sovereigns, 117 sub-sovereigns
and maintains surveillance on over 80,000 municipal transactions.
The company currently has over 6,300 U.S. structured finance
transactions under surveillance, including 2,900 RMBS pools,
490 CMBS, 2000 ABS, and 640 CDOs. Additionally, Fitch maintains
surveillance on over 1,400 European structured finance transactions
and 270 Asia-Pacific structured finance transactions.
www.fitchratings.com |
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Business Objects is
the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software
company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, Business
Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their
business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise
performance. BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry’s
most advanced and complete platform for reporting, query
and analysis, performance management, and data integration.
BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports®, the industry
standard for enterprise reporting. For more information,
log on to www.businessobjects.com |
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Genesys, an Alcatel
company, is 100 percent focused on software for contact
centers. Leading companies in the Global 2000 and Fortune
1000 use Genesys to deliver interactions that drive better
business. With 3000 customers in 80 countries, Genesys directs
more than 100 million customer interactions every day. Genesys
allows enterprises to achieve key business objectives by
tying together customer interactions, people, and customer
information in both traditional telephony and IP environments.
Sophisticated routing and reporting across voice, e-mail,
documents and Web interactions, coupled with integrated
self service, ensure that customers are quickly connected
to the right resource - the first time. Genesys solutions
stop customer frustration and allow enterprises to deliver
superior customer satisfaction and improved business results.
For more information visit us at www.genesyslab.com. |
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Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium,
with regional offices in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
Pacific, OpenWay Group was founded in 1995
to develop WAY4™, an innovative payment processing
framework for Banks, Processors and Telcos.
WAY4™ Switch, WAY4™ Card & Merchant Management
and WAY4™ EMV Personalisation solutions have been
selected by 70+ customers, more than 25% of which are EMV
certified.
Built on Oracle and high-end Unix clusters WAY4™ is
run today by high-volume customers with 10+ million accounts
and 3000 TPS as well as by niche players with sophisticated
products.
OpenWay is a member of Visa Global Vendor Program, MasterCard
Global Vendor Team, MasterCard’s OneSMART Club, Oracle
Certified Partner, NCR’s Self-Service Switch Partner,
and Diebold’s PIX.
www.openwaygroup.com
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Clear2Pay is an innovative
e-finance company focused on delivering globally applicable
solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. Headquartered
in Brussels, Belgium, the company's focus is to facilitate
banks and financial organizations in their provision of
electronic payments services. Clear2Pay's technology helps
to reduce transactions processing costs, and to deliver
new, compelling e-payment services in a competitive way.
Clear2Pay's payment solutions offer organisations easy,
branded ways for their customers to pay online: from complex
trade-supporting business-to-business environments, through
e-commerce applications, to retail payments and micro payments.
Functions embrace payments origination, reporting, linkage
with back-office processing systems, clearing, netting and
settlement. Clients include global and major regional financial
institutions such as ING, SEB Kort, VISA, MasterCard, ABN
AMRO, Nordea, Abbey National, Fortis Bank, ANZ and Commonwealth
Bank. Clear2Pay operates out of Belgium, the Netherlands,
Germany, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, China,
Australia and Singapore.
More information is available on www.clear2pay.com |
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MagTek, Inc has been
a leading provider of technology to support electronic payments
for more than 30 years.
Many financial institutions around the world use MagTek
solutions for instant ATM and credit card issuance, customer
PIN selection, card reading and PIN verification at the
teller counter, and MICR cheque reading and imaging.
Large numbers of kiosks and self-service terminals use MagTek
hybrid magnetic stripe and smart card readers and a very
high proportion of terminals installed at the point-of-sale
throughout the world have MagTek componentry inside performing
the card reading.
Now, major card-issuers are adopting MagTek’s unique
MagnePrintTM card skimming fraud prevention technology.
At the 2006 Asian Banker Summit, MagTek will be showcasing
MagnePrintTM together with a selection of other banking
technologies.
MagTek, based in Carson, California, USA has distributors
throughout the Asian region.
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SmartStream Technologies
is the undisputed market leading provider of Transaction
Management (TLM®) solutions. The company has a 37% market
share and over 1,100 clients globally, including 75 of the
world's top 100 banks.
SmartStream Technologies delivers fully integrated, multi-product
solutions that enable enterprise wide Transaction Lifecycle
Management, from trade inception to settlement in a single
scalable platform, all within the framework of its STP Control
Architecture.
SmartStream's STP Control Architecture includes:
- TLM® Reconciliations
- TLM® Process Automation
- TLM® Corona
- TLM® Cash Management
- TLM® Corporate Actions
- TLM® Exception Management
- TLM® Trade Process Management
- TLM® Trade Finance
The company is headquartered in the UK with staff deployed
globally in direct operations in London, Bristol, Paris,
Vienna, Zurich, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Barcelona, Madrid,
Milan, New York, Princeton, Phoenix, Singapore, Beijing,
Sydney and Mumbai.
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For more than 27 years, CSI
Complex Systems, Inc. has been providing the banking
community with innovative, web-based trade finance solutions
that support the entire financial trade chain. Banks around
the world use our products to reduce operational costs,
expand their market and improve profitability. Our BankTrade
back-office, ClientTrade corporate front-end, P.O.-Trade
and DocPrep are all browser-based, SWIFTReady Gold certified
and Bolero Enabled solutions that serve to enhance customer
service, attract new revenue streams and increase operational
efficiencies while mitigating operational risk.
Our solutions are platform independent and delivered with
a comprehensive implementation and maintenance methodologies.
They are component based and include Letters of Credit,
Standby Credits, Collections, Participations, Steamship
Guarantees, Funds Transfer, Trade Loans, Forfaiting, Reimbursements,
Workflow and Imaging. Banks have the flexibility to acquire
only the functionality that is immediately required and
then add on as their business grows and their needs evolve.
For more product information, visit us at: www.banktrade.com
or email us at sales@banktrade.com.
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BPC is a leading provider
of IT solutions for the retail financial services industry
focusing on EFT, international and local card processing,
self-service banking, retail banking and consumer lending,
e-business and customer relationship management.
Our customer base includes the largest and most progressive
retail banks of Russia, CIS and Asia Pacific – Sberbank,
Alfa-Bank, Gazprombank, ING Bank in Russia; Bank TuranAlem
in Kazakhstan, UkrSibbank in Ukraine, Security Bank Corporation
and OneCard International in the Philippines and many more.
BPC works with local and global partners who are leaders
in their respective areas, in particular with IBM, HP, Fujitsu
Siemens, Oracle, Axalto, Eracom Technologies, Thales e-Security,
NCR, Wincor Nixdorf and others. Aside from technology and
business partners we extend our partner network by engaging
regional companies located in the key markets globally.
BPC is now part of BPC Group with the corporate headquarters
in Moscow (Russia) and branch offices in Amsterdam, Jakarta,
Manila, Bangkok, Dubai and Kiev www.bpc.ru,
www.smartvista.biz
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Containing comprehensive details on international
banks, branches and financial institutions in 211 countries
BANKERSalmanac.com is your single source of global
banking information.
Weekly updates ensure you receive the latest data available
including - payments information, ownership, regulators
and group structures, current industry mergers and acquisitions,
financial summaries, credit ratings from the leading agencies
and world and country rankings.
Our additional Due Diligence Repository is designed specifically
to provide the bank data you need to carry out compliance
checks. In association with the Wolfsberg Group, it includes
copies of original documents for bank licences, anti-money
laundering controls and corporate governance documents.
www.bankersalmanac.com
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Cognos, the world
leader in enterprise business intelligence and corporate
performance management, delivers software that helps companies
drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage
– Corporate Performance Management (CPM) –achieved
through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise
scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive
performance through planning; monitor performance through
scorecarding; and understand performance through business
intelligence.
Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries.
Cognos enterprise business intelligence and performance
management solutions and services are also available from
more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers.
For more information, visit the Cognos Website at www.cognos.com.
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Calypso Technology
is a provider of capital markets trading solutions for financial
institutions. The suite of Calypso software solutions are
fully integrated from front to back and covers a broad range
of trading and processing activity, across derivatives,
securities and Treasury.
Calypso Enterprise Risk Service offers an enterprise view
of exposure to market risk, and allows for various measures
to be performed, including Historical Simulation VaR, and
risk factor sensitivities.
Calypso V8 includes enhancements to package the Calypso
software solutions to ease implementations. Several market
standard interfaces are now available ‘out of the
box’; numerous back office reports, processing workflows
and accounting rules based on best market practices have
been incorporated into the system.
Calypso’s underlying software technology guarantees
high performance and availability. A java-based software
system, Calypso has the necessary flexibility and extensibility
to support your business as well as having the capability
to handle large volumes of trades.
www.calypso.com
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Financial Service Organisations (FSOs)
continually strive to successfully perform, grow and compete
within an intricate and involved business environment. All
within a framework of managing risk, maximising efficiencies
and adhering to regulatory requirements.
In a truly global market where high transaction volumes
and short settlement cycles dictate a need for rapid reaction
to actual or potential failures, FSOs should employ a single
business control system.
City Networks empowers you to control
your business more fully and efficiently.
What makes us different is the focus on managing the integrity
of a transaction, detecting problems early and giving feedback
to prevent recurrence.
www.citynetworks.com
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HCL Banking and Capital Markets
is part of the HCL Enterprise, a leading Global Technology
and IT enterprise with annual revenues of $2.7 billion.
The Banking and Capital Markets vertical focuses on solutions
for
Across the banking and capital markets space, HCL offers
cross-industry solutions for Core Banking, Banking Channels
Development, Risk & Compliance and Data Management.
In addition to HCL domain advantage, another key highlight
in HCL offering is the Integrated Technology – Operations
– Infrastructure solutions. With the ability to transcend
these boundaries, HCL brings in opportunities for quantum
advantage through efforts for Process and Technology reengineering
As a technology solution provider HCL handles 350+ applications
for our clients across Front Office to Back office in US,
UK, Continental Europe and APAC. In capital markets HCL
experience spans all the asset classes including Equities,
Bonds, FX/MM, Commodities and Derivatives.
In Business Process Outsourcing, HCL runs one of the largest
non-captives offshore outsourced capital markets services
center in India with more than 1000 operations staff handling
processes in all product types.
A highlight of HCL capabilities is a decade long association
with one of the Top 10 banks in the world with 3000+ professionals
working with the bank. Testimony to HCL’s relationship
oriented business models and domain experience across micro
verticals.
www.hcl.in/
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Profitera is a leading
technology provider of Revenue Collections and Debt Recovery
Management Software Solutions. With Office in USA, Singapore,
Malaysia, and partners in Asia, Middle East and Europe,
Profitera's aim is to help its Customers focus on their
Clients and optimize profits throughout their Revenue &
Profitability Lifecycle.
Profitera’s solutions are combined under the umbrella
of Profitera PowerApps. Some of the benefits are, it:
The Internet based scalable open architecture of Profitera’s
solutions leverage on global technologies of Java, XML,
Rich Internet Application delivery, Business Rules Engine
and Predictive technologies to bring its customers greater
business value.
Profitera has strategic alliances with key technology players
including IBM, AMD, Novell and many more, whereby the Profitera
PowerApps is Certified on their respective platforms.
www.profitera.com
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NetEconomy has over decade of experience
addressing the compliance and anti-fraud needs of financial
institutions across the globe. Our financial crime solutions
cover anti-money laundering (AML), terrorist financing, internal
and external fraud and market abuse, helping our customers
including Calyon Financial, Bank of the Philippine Islands
and ING benefit from increased operational efficiencies, reduced
costs, and greater business insight into risk – while
ensuring compliance and protecting against reputational damage.
• NetEconomy’s award-winning ERASE® Financial
Crime Suite™ is a fully integrated, fast-to-implement
and cost-effective solution offering a full range of capabilities
to detect and manage risk..
With headquarters in The Hague, and offices in Kuala Lumpur,
London, Boston, and strategic partners across the world, NetEconomy
is committed to 100% customer satisfaction. NetEconomy’s
highly responsive ACAMS-certified team is dedicated to delivering
services and solutions with the highest degree of integrity
and professionalism – ensuring the continued success
of its customers worldwide.
Website: www.neteconomy.com |
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FNX Solutions provides global financial institutions with
complete technology SOLUTIONS for the management and processing
of capital market transactions. Established in 1992, the goal
has never changed, to give clients a competitive edge utilizing
industry-leading technology to maximize productivity and to
reduce operational risk.
With a commitment to the highest level of customer satisfaction,
FNX builds flexibility and adaptability into its growing mix
of software and customized service offerings to meet the ever-changing
needs of the financial marketplace. Through its suite of software
SOLUTIONS, FNX supports order management, trading, risk management,
margin and collateral trading, settlement and accounting for
FX Cash, FX Options, Money Markets, Fixed Income, Interest
Rate Derivatives, Commodities, and Exchange Traded products.
Furthermore, SierraLink, FNX’s standard solution for
interfacing with third party systems, provides seamless integration
and electronic transfer of information with real-time connectivity,
flexibility and high performance.
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, FNX has offices
in New York, London, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore and Belgrade.
Additional information about FNX Limited is available at www.fnx.com |
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CashTech Solutions,
a subsidiary of US based Fundtech Ltd., is a premier provider
of corporate electronic banking and cash management solutions
to financial institutions worldwide. With domain expertise
in Cash Management, Remittances and Funds Transfer, CashTech
has developed, implemented and supported its solutions in
over 50 sites across 15 countries. CashTech was adjudged
‘Best Cash Management Software Company’ in Euromoney’s
prestigious Financial Technology Awards 2005. The Banker,
a Financial Times London publication has also rated CashTech
“Highly Commendable” in the Cash Management
category for the year 2005.Clientele include: MNC Banks
like ABN Amro Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, BNP Paribas; large
regional banks like Shinsei Bank in Japan, Bank of Ayudhya
& Kasikorn Bank in Thailand, Bank Rakyat Indonesia and
Bank Niaga in Indonesia, Standard Bank in South Africa;
Land Bank of the Philippines; and HDFC Bank, State Bank
of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank in India among others. |
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